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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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2. 37. Sigvatr Þórðarson (biog. vol. 1), Bersǫglisvísur, 3 [Vol. 2, 15]

[8] þjokkva ‘make denser’: Lit. ‘thicken’. Hap. leg. formed from the adj. þjokkr ‘thick’. ‘One must make the forest denser with brush’ means that every warrior, no matter how insignificant, makes the army stronger, a veiled admonition to Magnús to avoid dissent among his men.

